OK, the first program on The Civil War Network is now available – you can find it here. You may need to enable ActiveX on your browser to get the player to load. The program runs over one hour. I downloaded it – to Real Player. I can’t figure out how to get it to download to iTunes so I can put it on my iPod. If you know what I need to do to get that to work, please let me know (I’m working with Vista). I haven’t listened to it yet, but I imagine I sound like a moron who’s not really sure what he’s doing. Comments are welcome here, but may be more appropriately left at The Civil War Network, which is set up as a blog and has the comments feature enabled. I’ll be checking those comments, and responding as necessary.

Dulce bellum inexpertis

“I am sending you these little incidents as I hear them well authenticated. They form, to the friends of the parties, part of the history of the glorious 21st. More anon.”

About

Hello! I’m Harry Smeltzer and welcome to Bull Runnings, where you'll find my digital history project on the First Battle of Bull Run which is organized under the Bull Run Resources section. I'll also post my thoughts on the processes behind the project and commentary on the campaign, but pretty much all things Civil War are fair game. You'll only find musings on my “real job” or my personal life when they relate to this project. My mother always told me "never discuss politics or religion in mixed company”, and that's sound advice where current events are concerned.

The Project

This site is more than a blog. Bull Runnings also hosts digitized material pertaining to First Bull Run. In the Bull Run Resources link in the masthead and also listed below are links to Orders of Battle, After Action Reports, Official Correspondence, Biographical Sketches, Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Newspaper Accounts and much, much more. Take some time to surf through the material. This is a work in process with no end in sight, so check back often!